Senate Candidate Attacked Over World of Warcraft

[Two-A]

"Look at this demonspawn!, she's playing games!, we can't have someone who plays games on the office!"

I hate election season. :/

 

[ash12181987]

In other news: The republican Party is baffled as to why it's attempts to paint itself as having moved away from it's old: The party for crotchity old folks, have continued to fail.

In other news: entire escapist community seems to forget the Republicans outright owned the Dems in 2010 and the electoral race as a whole this year is quite close.

Swing and a miss...

 

[Jfswift]

That's refreshing to see her playing WoW. It's normal and with the times.

 

[thiosk]

my god she looks exactly like every woman on world of warcraft.

except you, you're unique

 

[Ekonk]

What. The. Fuck.

I see now. I see why they always paint video games in a negative light. It has been leading up to this. No gamer can go into politics now.

 

[Flames66]

It's hard to believe that this is what Republicans have decided to seize on as an issue, but the troubling part is that for at least a few voters, it'll probably work.

It'll probably lose her a few votes and gain her some more from gamers. It might even "reverse the polarity" (captcha) on the situation.

 

[TheDoctor455]

...this is the third most stupid and disturbing thing I've seen out of the republican party.

I agree.

Stupid since if this is all the dirt they can find on her, then they're fucked.

Disturbing in that... everything she posted or did in WoW could be interpreted as "private" since she had a username for this. How the Republicans figured out this was her account, and then back-tracked all of her posts... is pretty disturbing.

 

[Colin Bagley]

Weirdly, the whole thing has actually made a politician I can relate to.

 

[Scars Unseen]

If I lived in Maine, I'd vote for her.

 

[BoogieManFL]

Sounds like to me her opponent should learn the difference between a game and reality. It doesn't matter that someone plays a game with violence or if they're playing farmville. Political concerns turn people into fucking morons.

 

[Falterfire]

Spoiler: Massive Quote

My sarcasm was entirely on the point:
You are suggesting mobilizing enough people to reshake an entire party. Do you know what happened the last time anybody tried that? The Tea Party. And once more, the media nabbed the craziest, threw them up, and the currently voted in people were more than happy to throw everybody who represented a possible threat to their position under the bus of public mockery. Now the Tea Party is a punchline, known only for the people they would rather not have associated with in the first place.

Ah yes, it was entirely the media. It had nothing to do with the incredibly radical statements or comments they made in public.

Seems legitimate to me.

Get real. They weren't exactly crapping on cop cars to their credit, but once they got into any sort of powerful position, they descended into being just as bad as the Occupy movement, radically shifting to one extreme of the spectrum and becoming a lock-step march for the Republicans reclaiming so many seats in Congress. By the way, they've done an awful lot with Congress in the last two years I see....so much, in fact, that you can hardly tell they ever left!

Maybe that's because, in effect, they didn't....people stupidly voted along party lines under the misguided belief that it would "fix things", and the product was STILL a do-nothing Congress that can't serve its people and enjoys the lowest approval ratings in history....but now they wear different colored ties.

It's easy to say "Rise up and reshape your party!" It's damn near impossible to actually do no matter how many people are actually interested because the level of organization, funding, and time required to affect anything on a national level is insane.

Seriously, let me know if you've got a plan for how I would go about doing this. If you have a plan, I'd love to hear it, but stop telling me "well you should just get rid of all the idiots in your party and take over" as though that were something I could do over the weekend and just hadn't thought of it yet.

There have already been two such movements in the last four years, so let's please stop pretending it's "hard" to organize massive groups of concerned citizens. The hard part, and the part that both movements failed on, was to keep focused. Occupy rapidly descended into borderline riots that killed any discussion value they could have brought to the table, and the Tea Party twisted itself into a group that at times is so radical that it makes some of the Texas Republican party's platforms' stances on the issues look liberal by comparison. Neither ended up doing what they sought to do: correct the truly massive flaws in business and government.

You'll notice I haven't criticized your party at all. There's a reason for that. I have no interest in getting into policy debates. You have no reason to believe I have any idea what I'm talking about and I have no reason to believe you do either. That was never my point.

Really? I figured it was because you intelligently interpreted my comments to realize that I'm an independent, and thus realized that "attacking my party" would be impossible seeing as how I don't have one. But I guess that was expecting too much.

My point was that the media flocks to the idiots because serious plans are boring. When was the last time you saw a news article with a serious point by point unbiased walkthrough of a candidate's plan for fixing the economy? Not soundbites such as "$X of taxcuts" or "$X of budget cuts" but a serious point by point discussion on national news?

Um, a few weeks ago, when I was reading an AP article discussing Romney's plans against Obama's? In fact, I've read several such articles. There have been numerous opinionated blogs on the subject as well. It's all over the internet, and both plans have been dissected thoroughly by both parties. I assume you're claiming that this hasn't happened yet because you still get your news from television? One channel in particular, I'm betting? The key to a balanced approach (and to obtaining an informed opinion) is to listen to several points of view and filtering out the bias.

Whereas every week we get a story like this one that says "XYZ politician did something retarded let's laugh at them."

Well when they continue to do stupid shit, it's rather hard to avoid commenting on it.

We all believe parties are run exclusively by idiots because that's all we hear about. If you think it's only Republicans who get these stories it's because you automatically dismiss the ones about Democrats doing similar things as one sided or distortions.

I never claimed I did. I see stupid shit from both parties all the time. I'm merely pointing out that you don't get the right to ***** about the stupid shit if you're not willing to take action and try to fix your own party, especially when you know it's broken.

That said, how interesting that you're resorting to the age-old "you disagree with me, so you must be an evil liberal brainwashed by the MSM" argument that Republicans are stereotyped as having....and here I thought you were better than that. I've never once indicated that I ignore the stupidity of Democrats (in fact in both of my posts, I stated that both parties will just have to deal with their stereotypes unless they're willing to fix their party).

We all as humans have a brain that wants us to go 'yay' for things we support and ignore or disbelieve things we don't. It's part of the reason I as a Republican launched this discussion here instead of on an article about how that guy in New York banned supersized drinks and it's why you never see anybody change their mind over internet discussions despite one guy obviously being the voice of reason.

Oh, you mean Moron....er, Mayor Bloomberg? He's almost adorable, really, like he's trying to force people to have healthy eating habits. Poor guy just doesn't realize that if I want to eat junk food, I'm gonna do it, and he's welcome to break down the door and arrest me if he has the testicular fortitude to try and pry the burger and soda from my hands. Until then, his nanny laws are about as meaningful to me as this attack ad from Maine's Republicans.

Hitting it point by point: You've proven my point: The two biggest movements in recent memories, the ones most likely to actually cause real change? Both met the same fate: The idiots were given room to talk, the reasonable voices were for the most part ignored. Letting Reasonable Senator #5 get on the public talk circuit isn't going to lead to anything fun. Letting Redneck McCrazyHead go wild? Oh that'll draw in TONS of viewers.

There may be discussions here and there, but they aren't what dominate the media, and they aren't what the eyes of millions are drawn to. If you and five friends have an enlightened discussion on a forum, that's great for you and five friends. If the AP runs a piece on numbers, but those numbers are never brought up again or covered by a major news network? Not terribly helpful.

And you HAVE to have the mass media helping in order to sway the numbers required to do a party restructuring. After all, you need popular support and like it or not popular support requires you not to become a joke in the media. That's not some crack at how everybody's brainwashed, it's simple logic: The major news and advertising networks have spent years studying how to influence people and draw attention. It stands to reason that they know by now how to influence people effectively.

As for claiming you're a democrat: I've been arguing with multiple people across quite a few posts now. I have a hunch most of them are democrat given the way they seem to automatically assume the Republican party is really staffed by nothing but gay hating rednecks.

But if you ARE an independent, that kind of proves my point: Why haven't YOU risen up and formed a party to represent you and overthrow the shackles of this stupid broken two party system? You said so yourself it isn't hard. I'm sure it shouldn't take you more than a week or so.

And I wasn't calling you brainwashed, I was referring to legitimate studies showing that people are always significantly more biased than they thing and our brains are more than happy to let us keep reinforcing those biases. Your brain is more than happy to brainwash itself.

And yes, some politicians occasionally do stupid things. You know what doesn't get reported on? Intelligent politicians doing intelligent things. There's a one sided flow of information where only the stupid things that are, for the most part, ultimately meaningless slips of the tongue or idiocy from people who don't deserve the spotlight in the first place is most of what we see.

Long route through to say: The system is broken. It's not easy to fix. Stop pretending it isn't broken or that it isn't incredibly difficult to fix.

 

[dyre]

Seems like more of the status quo, really. Politicians misconstruing information about other politicians...at least in this case the politicians in question aren't just outright making shit up. Nothing to be particularly angry about.

 

[Something Amyss]

and she's a gamer, one with poor taste imo, but still, a politician gamer is rare, but a good thing imo cause i think there like, only one other i recall hearing about i while back ....

I should totally run for state Senate. My Dungeon Village has a five star rating!

>.>

(Don't worry, I totally play more "hardcore" titles as well. But it was funnier to bring up a casual Android game).

 

[Lunar Templar]

and she's a gamer, one with poor taste imo, but still, a politician gamer is rare, but a good thing imo cause i think there like, only one other i recall hearing about i while back ....

I should totally run for state Senate. My Dungeon Village has a five star rating!

>.>

(Don't worry, I totally play more "hardcore" titles as well. But it was funnier to bring up a casual Android game).

can i be your running mate? i can totally kill dragons, and gods, i have 2 titles in Vindictus to back this up

 

[Sir Shockwave]

Wait wait wait... this is Maine. Aren't statements like, "That means I stab things... a lot," basically street (forest?) cred?

I thought normal for Maine involved Skygiana's and Evil Tim Curry clowns?

OT: Wow, really? And this is discouraging HOW?!

Next up, they'll reveal that David Cameron likes Doctor Who, or he's secretly a Weeping Angel (or more likely, he's a Dalek Sleeper Agent). Way to dig out the dirt on your opponent America -_-

 

[pandorum]

It is hard not to get behind a senator who wants to dick-punch a boss, if she choose to put that as a claws that if a boss is giving you trouble you should be allowed on dick-punck to move forward.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

...this is the third most stupid and disturbing thing I've seen out of the republican party.

Read more stuff that comes from the Republican party. I'm not even American, and this wouldn't make the top five for me!

 

[Tomeran]

This is the republican party. They jumped at people for far more bizarre reasons then this. And yes, this is quite bizarre.

Seriously, someone should check that party for rabies, at the rate they're trying to bite everyone.

 

[Something Amyss]

This is the republican party. They jumped at people for far more bizarre reasons then this. And yes, this is quite bizarre.

Seriously, someone should check that party for rabies, at the rate they're trying to bite everyone.

The best part is they're implying that Colleen doesn't live in the real world, but by doing so, they're conflating the real world with the World of Warcraft.

Meanwhile, the GOP puts up candidates who believe in witches and partake in exorcisms.